Akin Road Elementary and Farmington Elementary particpated in a "friendly" food drive challenge, an event that raised thousands of food items for the Farmington Food Shelf, maximized student involvement in a community building project, and saw on Principal make good on a bet.

2. Akin Road students kept a steady stream of food items coming in.
Those boxes back behind are also filled with food.

3. Grade 5 students at Farmington Elementary had a challenge to count
the impressive collection of food assembled in the corridor.

4. They organized the items for the food shelf, and had a pretty good
idea that their Principal had “won” the bet.

5. Principal Januschka tried to
get away with kissing a
stuffed animal cow that he
found in Dawn Slinger’s
classroom.

6. But the Donnelly Farms brought in “Bessie” to the delight of the
students and the show was about to begin!

7. Here “Farmer Ben” gets on the good side
of “Bessie” with some fresh milk prior to the magical moment.

8. The big winners
were local families
in need who will
benefit from the
thousands of food
items donated by
students in both
schools.